DAILY PHOTO: Barachukki Monkey

Taken in July of 2014 at Bharachukki Falls in Karnataka

DAILY PHOTO: Zoo Creatures of Mysore





















Taken in November of 2013 in Mysore at the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens

DAILY PHOTO: White Deer of Mysore Zoo

Taken in November of 2013 in Mysore

DAILY PHOTO: Napping Hippos

Taken in April of 2017 on the Chobe River between Botswana and Namibia

 

DAILY PHOTO: Why the Zebra Has Stripes

Taken in April of 2017 in Mosi Oa Tunya (Victoria Falls) National Park

 

Chobe National Park, Botswana

 

I heard a person — looking at a solitary zebra — say, “That is horrible camouflage! How is it not extinct?”

The answer is found by looking at zebras in a group. When they run in a herd, it becomes impossible for a predator to distinguish one from another. Heads merge with hindquarters merging with a shoulder.  They become an amorphous monochromatic cluster with nothing to bite onto.

 

 

Bamboo Haiku





bamboo copse
groans in subtle wind
no space between


crows rule

the bamboo arch

over the road



bamboo grove
carpeted in grainy beige
alien landscape


plastic cup

gripped in crow’s beak

frat boy style



pink blossoms
will soon bleed onto
bamboo pollen

DAILY PHOTO: Curious Giraffe

Taken in May of 2017 in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

DAILY PHOTO: The World According to a Pigeon Having an Out-of-Body Experience

Taken at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur in November of 2015

DAILY PHOTO: Lilac-Breasted Roller

Taken in April of 2017 in Botswana

 


DAILY PHOTO: Tarsiers

Taken on Bohol in December of 2017

Tarsiers may be the product of a five-way orgy between an owl (eyes), a bat (ears), a frog (hands), a rat (tail), and a monkey (body), but they’re still pretty cute.